Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

Frequent on stumps and among fallen leaves, sometimes in tufts. July to October.

Spores elliptical, obliquely apiculate, 8×5µ Massee.

Sometimes confounded with C. atramentarius.

West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, McIlvaine.

C. deliquescens is of good size and quality. The stems do not cook well with the caps. The flavor is the same as C. atramentarius.

C. congrega´tus (Bull.) Fr. Pileus ½-¾ in. high, cylindrical, then bell-shaped, finally expanded and split at the margin, smooth, viscid, margin slightly striate, ochraceous. Gills about 1 line broad, slightly adnexed, white, finally becoming black. Stem 1½ in. high, equal, smooth, hollow, whitish.

On the ground, also in hot-houses. Massee.

Readily distinguished by the densely cespitose mode of growth, the small size, the viscid, ochraceous, glabrous pileus which remains elongato-cylindrical for some time, then becomes campanulate and finally expands and splits at the margin.

Densely cespitose, fragile, readily distinguished from C. digitalis by its much smaller size. Fries.

Spores 7×8µ W.G.S.; 10×5µ W.P.